207 



CELA RHEIDES 



(OWEN). 



Dinornis rheides Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. IV, p. 8 (1850 — partim). 

 Syornis rheides Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXIV, p. 131 (1892). 



HIS is a very difficult form to consider, as the type bones consisted 



X of those of three different forms. Whether Professor Owen, were he 

 now alive, would concur in Captain Hutton's treatment is very 

 questionable, and I doubt if it ought not to be united to Emeus crassus, 

 while Haast united it to P. gravis. I have kept it separate as no bones of 

 a single individual united are known, and it might prove sufficiently distinct 

 if a good skeleton were obtained. The type bones were sent from 

 Waikawaite, Middle Island, by Colonel Wakefield, in 1849. 

 Habitat : Middle Island, New Zealand. 



CASUARINUS is found in both Islands, and is abundant in the Middle 



The type came from Waikowaiti. 

 Habitat: New Zealand. 



Portions of one skeleton and two almost complete skeletons in Tring 

 Museum ; one of the latter from Kapua Swamps. 



CELA CASUARINUS 



(OWEN). 



Dinornis casuarinus Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. Ill, p. 307 (1846). 

 Syornis casuarinus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. der Vog, p. XXX (1850). 

 Meionornis casuarinus Haast, Trans. N.Z. Inst., VII, pp. 54-91 (1875). 

 Syornis casuarinus Hutton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., XXIV, p. 133 (1892). 



Island. 



